Bug#619602: RFP: theunarchiver -- archive extractor with built-in support for multiple formats
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 08:57:56AM +0800, Sylvain Beucler wrote: > * Package name: theunarchiver > * URL : http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/unarchiver.html > The Unarchiver extracts archives in Zip, Tar-GZip, Tar-BZip2, RAR, > 7-zip, LhA, StuffIt and many other old and obscure formats. > > In particular it supports extracting RAR v3 archive using a completely > free, LGPL'd implementation (while other archive managers usually rely > on the non-free library from the RAR authors). Now that's interesting. Do you mean, someone reverse engineered the format or did work around the restrictions of unrar-nonfree's license? That license specifically forbids reading the source to recreate the format. This restriction doesn't sound like something very solid, but whatever way it was avoided needs close scrutiny. If it's kosher, it would be great to make the free implementation available as a library. -- 1KB // Microsoft corollary to Hanlon's razor: // Never attribute to stupidity what can be // adequately explained by malice. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110511090042.ga10...@angband.pl
Bug#619602: RFP: theunarchiver -- archive extractor with built-in support for multiple formats
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: theunarchiver Version : 2.6 Upstream Author : Dag Ågren * URL : http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/unarchiver.html * License : LGPL Programming Lang: Objective C Description : archive extractor with built-in support for multiple formats The Unarchiver extracts archives in Zip, Tar-GZip, Tar-BZip2, RAR, 7-zip, LhA, StuffIt and many other old and obscure formats. In particular it supports extracting RAR v3 archive using a completely free, LGPL'd implementation (while other archive managers usually rely on the non-free library from the RAR authors). It provides two commands: * lsar to list an archive content * unar to extract the archive The webpage provide this set of instructions to build the package, which works for me under Debian Squeeze: sudo apt-get install build-essential libgnustep-base-dev libz-dev libbz2-dev libssl-dev libicu-dev cd XADMaster make -f Makefile.linux I didn't try to build the GUI portion, which is aimed at OS X. The package contains an unused copy of the proprietary unrar library (in the BadLicense/ directory), which should be removed before packaging. The free code is in XADMaster/XADRAR* . -- Sylvain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110325144002.21109.25023.reportbug@gun
